Another vote for it’s been happening, it’s just now being noticed and commented upon. Especially in the national news.
Take it one step further…male teacher with a male student…I think the town would tar and feather the teacher before the public lynching. Ticked me off that Leno and everybody else can make “wink wink” jokes about “gee, wish she had been my teacher” implying that sex with a student is OK…as long as it is a boy with a female teacher.
I guess if you are heterosexual, no age is too young to bang a woman.
I can’t get worked up about that. The joke is about the horniness of teenage boys. And it’s a joke. Tasteless perhaps, but a joke. I don’t see any slur to anyone in “boy, I wish I’d had a hot teacher make passes at me in school” kind of shtick.
In other words, you don’t hear comedians (male or female, gay or straight) making jokes from the other POV, as in “boy I wish I’d been a middle school teacher and had some cute students”.
And – this is a hypothetical, but… – I can’t imagine any outrage over a gay comedian making a similar joke about how, say, if Sting had been his English teacher he’d have taken the ride. Except, of course, from the bigots who are going to object to any humor that seems to condone homosexuality.